They got some other donkey teams left though: Leeds, Everton and Chelsea.
Nordic Ghost Yeti (Scandi Carroll) | Haaland at City
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They got some other donkey teams left though: Leeds, Everton and Chelsea.
Yeah, dunno. Must've just been playing out of his skin and had a bucket load of luck too.
Haaland, Cole and Shearer aren't even top 20 if you look at the whole of English top flight history. It was clearly a different time, though. Especially the 20's and 30's.
Don't forget defence during that time are pretty much "non existent"
I get that, and for players in general to score more wouldn't be strange, but for a player who's whole career was just around a goal a game to have one season where he scores 60 in 39 is really odd
Yeah but that doesn't explain why every other season in his career including one in the second division are nowhere near as productive
My guess is that his dad invented the wheel that year and didn't share the technology with the rest of society. Because of this, Lil Dixie could travel to games more comfortably and be well rested before kickoff.
I'm a Messi fan but If City wins the treble I think Haaland should be given the Golden ball. A 7 game tournament shouldn't be considered more important than proving you are the best in over 50 games.
I know what you're getting at but giving it to Messi would really annoy Ronaldo, so that feels the right thing to do.
Agree with this.
Whether it's 38 games or 42 games, he holds the record alone now. At 22 years old. In his first PL season. Just sickening...
He has 5 games left to grab the following 3 records:
1. Most goals + assist
He needs 3 more to equal Henry(44).
2. Most hat-tricks
He needs 1 more to equal Shearer(5)
3. Most non-penalty goals
He needs 3 more to equal Salah and Suarez(31)
I have a feeling that he will break all 3
Who's got the record for the most PL games scored in, in a single 38 game season?
Im so annoyed the club fumbled this signing TWICE!
Man, we really need to get 2 attackers in this summer
Looking on the bright side…. Utd have indeed scored more. Whoopee!
We scored our 1000th goal under Pep tonight. He already accounts for over 5% of them.
They've still got Leeds to play
With Big Sam in charge, expect City to lose the game. Big Sam is the most experienced manager there is. No one can compare.
We really do. It's a higher priority IMO than a 9 and upgrade on Eriksen. Martial can be third in the rotation behind our first two strikers.
But this is the Haaland thread so I'll leave it at that
What’s even more impressive is the fact he’s scored against every team in the premier league who he’s faced home and away so far.
Throwback to one of the best posters of the season
It’s more like you’ve gone to sleep ever since.
Monster
Incredible striker. And I hate that I don't hate him.
Yeah sadly we blew our chance when he was plying his trade at Molde under Ole,such a sore point and will always be fecked off Jose and Butt didn't want to sign him.
I can't help feeling absolutely irate at this and not gonna lie jealous as hell he is at City
Haaland is a goal machine but if he did win the Ballon d'Or, it would feel, I dunno, the prize lost its magical feeling ? He doesn't possess the out of this planet influence aura that Messi, Ronaldo and Modric had.
You do know Michael Owen once won the ballon d'or?
No idea but those are back in 1920s during the pre war era. Things were quite different back when they have almost every top strikers scoring close to a goal per game during those time, so I am not sure we could take those stats seriously when comparing to the present time.
Haaland is breaking records in an era where English league is at its highest ever level, being the best/toughest league in the world and all that, so that looks far more impressive to me.
What I like about Haalands first season is how his City team have gone in to a very simple system.
No more Sterling tapping in the back post or inverted forwards trying to cut in and shoot.
Grealish, KDB, Silva, Mahrez, Rodri, Gundogan & Foden have all just been creating for Haaland most of the time & he has been taking nearly every chance.
I personally don’t believe he would be just as good at United or Liverpool - he would definitely be a 25+ goal striker but in my opinion wouldn’t be breaking the records with as ease as in City.
That team is just built for him.
Atleast Haaland’s dad played at City - it just kind of makes it feel like it was always meant to be rather than joining us.
No more Sterling tapping in the back post or inverted forwards trying to cut in and shoot.
Grealish, KDB, Silva, Mahrez, Rodri, Gundogan & Foden have all just been creating for Haaland most of the time & he has been taking nearly every chance.
I personally don’t believe he would be just as good at United or Liverpool - he would definitely be a 25+ goal striker but in my opinion wouldn’t be breaking the records with as ease as in City.
That team is just built for him.
Atleast Haaland’s dad played at City - it just kind of makes it feel like it was always meant to be rather than joining us.
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Owen was way more talented than Haaland tbh, even if the Balloon he won was very unpopular
Everybody talking about how good hes team is...
R9 played with: Beckham, Figo, Zidane, Zalgado, Guti...
Messi played with: Xavi, Iniesta, Alves, Neymar, Suatez...
Ronaldo played with: Modric, Øzil, Benzema...
All played with pretty amazing supporting players, in teams that was probably even more dominating than City.
The more i think of it, the more bizzare Haalands scoring rate is. He most likely played far less minutes than them too.
No point in replying that all 3 was 100x better because they where better "footballers" I heard it before.
R9 played with: Beckham, Figo, Zidane, Zalgado, Guti...
Messi played with: Xavi, Iniesta, Alves, Neymar, Suatez...
Ronaldo played with: Modric, Øzil, Benzema...
All played with pretty amazing supporting players, in teams that was probably even more dominating than City.
The more i think of it, the more bizzare Haalands scoring rate is. He most likely played far less minutes than them too.
No point in replying that all 3 was 100x better because they where better "footballers" I heard it before.
Honestly, I doubted him at the beginning of the season, more to do with how City play and the team set up and at certain points it looked like I was onto something when they looked a little blunt. But Pep has tweaked it and now they make sure the final pass is to him if possible and it's devastating.
Absolutely hilarious that some doubted Haaland.
The guys quite simply a force of nature, a mix of the sublime with explosive power.
The guys quite simply a force of nature, a mix of the sublime with explosive power.
Yeah but he banged in something like 19 on a row.
I did but it was more the set up he was going to rather than the player himself.
I've only just realised who he looks like after months of trying to figure it out after seeing him with his hair down the other day......a younger version of Vigo from Ghostbusters 2
That's fair enough, and you are 100% correct in saying Pep has tweaked the system to suit accordingly.
Also Haaland has changed his game slightly, he drops deep a lot more, is a lot more involved in build up play.
He did look a bit lost for the first third of the season but was still scoring for fun, now he seems like a more complete player, which is even more scary.
He acceleration is ridiculous. Has his speed been clocked? Does anybody know it?